Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-09
S0IITH CAROLINA NEWS.

Judge AlQrlcn IS Sufferlng severely lTOIIl
injuries received in fall which he had on
Friday last.
- Col. Stephen Elmore has discovered
gold mine on his plantation, near the once
famous Dorm Nine in Abbeville county.
The survey of the Orangeburg and Lew
iedale Railroad has been completed and
meeting of the stockholders will be held in
Orangeburg to-day.
Mr.. Milton McLaurin, of Bennettsville,
bought milch cow for $40 seven months
ago, and he calculated that since then he
has made profit of s51.Sl.
Captain J. Y. McFall, clerk of court
for Newberry county, died on the I'd in
slant from the effects of fall on the ice
one month previous.
The Langley cotton mills, the dam of
which was destroyed just five months ago
by the earthquake, have again commenced
working.
The trustees of the Reidville Male
Academy, which was recently destroyed
| by fire, are meeting with considerable sue
cess in their efforts to raise money to re-
BUILD.
fZThe shovel or plough brought out re-
lTecently by the South Carolina Railway
Company, is now at work on the Barn
we'll road filling in the trestling. AS it is
quite novelty for that section, numbers of
people 60 to see it.
t>7SThe Anderson Journal says: Now comes
the empty wagon into town, and barrels OF
flour bags of corn, sides of meat and sacks
of guano are trundled off into the country
to assist in making another crop of cotton.
How long is this treadmill business going to
last?
- There is talk in Greeville of organizing
land and Improvement company, with
81 100000 capital. The promoters of the
scheme have in view the erection of large
cotton factories, perhaps railroad freight
car factory and the general development of
the resources Of the town.
|<Says the Columbia Register: There are
moreapplications to the Board of Direc-
tors of the Penitentiary for convicts on
lease than can be filled. All but those not
fit for leasing have already been let out,
and when removed will leave about 800 in
the institution.
William Jennings, employed at Capt.
A. H. Deans gin, near Duncan's, Spartan
burg county, had his right hand and arm
caught in the machinery and so mangled
that it had to be cut off. He is said to be
hard working man with two small, moth
erless children dependent on him for sup
port.
Mr.. T. X. Cunningham, of Lancaster,
is one of the few farmers in South Carolina
who has expended much effort in enrich
ing apd improving his lands. BY drain
age and other means, he has gotten his
farm up to high state of cultivation. The
past year he planted 120 acres in cotton
and made 1O5 bales averaging 425 pounds
per bale; 8 acres in wheat and made 222
bushels; and 30 acres in corn and made 700
bushels.
The State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, at its meeting held in Columbia
last week, finished the revision of the pre-
MUM list and adjourned to meet on the
first Wednesday in August. The rules
for the conduct of the Fairs Of the So
ciety will be simplifed and the work by
the departments facilitated. The PROPOSE
tiOn to make the spring meeting the prin-
cipal meeting, viz, the occasion for the
election of the officers of the society, was
passed to the regular meeting during the
Fair next fall. The custom heretofore has
been to elect officers and conduct other i'm
portant business at tho Fair meetings of the
society, but the rush incident to the Fair,
it is urged, renders it inconvenient and i'm
practical to transact at that time business
not in1 mediately concerning the exhibition.
A BIC GHOST SToRY.-The following
ghost story, which comes from Lexington,
Va, under date of the 3rd instant, sounds
very much like hoax: Much excitement
exists in the Virginia Military Institute:
On the night of January %, as the sentinel
was walking his beat, his attention was
attracted to the sally port to the front of
the barracks by slight sound. Between
the two large forty-six pound siege pieces
there appeared soldier dressed in Con-
federate uniform and mounted on large
gray horse. His sword was drawn. His
horse was tightly reined up and two white
plumes floated above his head.
In an instant the horse started through
the sallyport into the courtyard at round
trot, crossing the sentinel's beat and max
ing no sound, although he was passing over
solid brick pavement. The sentinel chal-
lenged with loud voice, "Who goes
there?" The rider did not heed the chal-
enge but passed on at the same pace until,
arriving at an abrupt and impossible preci-
pice in the rear of the barracks, he van
ished.
The sentinel promptly called his corporal,
who informed the lieutenant of the guard
and the officer of the day. The guard was
turned out, and though a minute search
was instituted no trace Of horse or rider
could be found.
On the next night "a similar phenomenon
was witnessed by party of cadets and citi-
zens. This time sentinel was stationed
in the centre of the sallypOrt to await the
temperance of the horse and rider. At
the same time, as on. the night before,
the horse and rider appeared and started
through the sallyport at good pace. The
sentinel commanded "Halt! Who goes
there?"
The horse approached nearer and nearer
to the sentinel, until within two feet of the
point Of the bayonet, and vanished only to
reappear just in the rear of the sentinel.
Then he passed on in the direction he had
taken the preceding night, again disappear
ing at the edge of the yprecipice. An old
veteran present recognized the rider to be
none other than Gen. StoneWall Jackson.
A COMPLIMENT TO Mr.. HEMPHILL.-
Mr.. Hemphill who, in the field of gener-
al legislation, has shown himself one of the
best equipped men in the House of Repre-
sentatives, added to his laurels yesterday
by his mastery handling of the District
bills. Hitherto it has been the custom, on
other than District days, practically to ig-
more the District committee during the Sec
ond morning hour; but Mr.. Hemphill step
ped to the front yesterday and called up one
District bill after another, procured favor
able action on two, and, but for the objection
of Mr.. Dunham, would have put third
on its passage. Considering the contempt
uous treatment the District commonly re-
ceives from Congress because it has no rep
resentative in that body, such unseltish en-
ergy i'm it's behalf is most refreshing spec
tacie, and entities the gentleman from
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